University of Tennessee, Knoxville student Corey Arndt (right) and doctoral student William Ferrell start work on laying a composite patch for materials testing at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Divis More
Daniel Hart, an aerospace engineer from Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, and Dr. Stephanie TerMaath, professor of mechanical, aerospace and biomedical engineering at the University of Tennessee More
Mechanical building at NBS Pittsburgh laboratories
Kiln house at NBS Pittsburgh laboratories
Main laboratory building at NBS Pittsburgh
General view of NBS Pittsburgh laboratory buildings Public domain photograph of painting, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Emery Testing Machine, built to NBS specifications, was originally purchased to test bridge columns. It was also used to test dirigible girders, suspension bridge cables, bulkhead specimens, riveted ship jo More
The Emery Testing Machine had a capacity of 2,300,000 pounds in compression and 1,150,000 pounds in tension, and could accomodate specimens up to 30 feet in length. The advantages of the horizontal testing mach More
Brick structural testing
This machine would take a column six feet square by thirty feet high and applied it to a load of ten million pounds.
Structural testing equipment
Structural testing of concrete
Structural testing
Structural testing of bric
Structural testing of girders
The maximum weight which a brick wall would hold up is being determined in this image, using the largest of NBS' testing machines, the capacity of which was ten million poinds. Other types of construction, such More
Tests of tower column sections of the Hudson River Bridge of New York City, NY
Testing steel truss
Olsen machine, a compression to exhaustion giant, was used in the NBS Pittsburgh laboratories for destruction tests of piers and other masonry columns
At NIST's small chamber test facility, researchers are assessing the performance of a prototype reference material for testing emissions of VOCs from building products. Credit: NIST Disclaimer: Any mention of More
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Looking south along a row of thirteen mysterious structures, between the Old Putnam Railroad and the great lawn of Van Cortlandt Park. They were built in the early 20th century to test different kinds of stone More
AN-VI Hystersis